I see you are a light data user;) I got my first Mac in 1996 with a 1.2GB drive. After a couple of years I had filled it up and got a 10GB replacement - wow the storage space! Bought a new G4 last autumn (that's fall for you USians) with an 80GB drive and the damn thing is almost full up already - luckily there are three empty drive bays...
This got in the news in the UK at the end of last year - a woman drunk antifreeze by mistake and got prescribed whisky when she went to the hospital. Two glasses immediately followed by one an hour for 24 hours. I'd imagine she was pretty rat-arsed after that (free) session!
I run RtCW at 1280x1024 (Forced on me by the LCD monitor) with all the eye-candy and it seems to keep a steady 70-80fps. I'm looking at the fps counter - is timedemo more or less acurate? It'll drop a bit outdoors but dark narrow corridors go well over 100fps. The worst case scenario seems to be outdoors with lots of dynamic lighting. Standing on the roofs looking out over all the flames in 'The Bombed Factory' is particularly bad. I managed rates as low as 25fps here but only if I stood in a certain spot looking in a certain direction - I was also running iTunes in the background. In a nomal game I've never seen chopiness.
We have also been stimulated by a knowlege of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr R. E. Franklin [snip]
The jet engine noise comes from a fan that only turns on when the box gets to hot. This is incredibly noisy but I only get it for the first couple of seconds after a reboot. This fix is for the PSU fans which while loud are not in the same league. Some people say the PSU noise is unacceptable - I find it is alright and suspect there has been some hysteria doing the rounds here. I guess if you're doing audio work it would be a pain though. Even so I've ordered my new PSU as quietness is a good thing. So we'll see how that goes - shipping March 10th...
l0phtCrack really can do this - by exploting weaknesses in Windows password hashing it is possible to know that you have some of the characters right without getting the whole password. This paper goes into the gory detail...
I went back to 1970 once I rebooted following the install. Once it was online it found a timeserver and sorted itself out so no big problem there. It's not been rebooted since and won't be until the next big update so I've no idea if it always jumps back to 1970 or not.
If you move apps where Apple's installer doesn't expect them to be (and don't whine how it is your computer and not Apple's), you'll have boinked links, and dock icon issues.
I understand why the system files should be left well alone but it *really* annoys me that the updaters get picky on the location of the 'Applications' folder. I have the core OS on its own partition and I put the apps on a larger partition. I even give the OS a clue by making '/Applications' a symlink to the actual location of the apps. Why then do updaters insist on replacing the symlink with a new '/Applications' folder? Why can't it just follow the damn link? It's not so bad when an entire app is updated - just drag it into *my* apps folder and the job is done. The real PITA is when an app bundle is partially updated and you have a folder full of crud to merge with the original.
No it isn't. How many multi-threaded programs have you written? It is nowhere near as simple as just creating a thread and setting it loose in a program that wasn't designed to be multi-threaded.
I don't know about the grandparent but I have written a Cocoa app with threading and it was pretty simple. Not every multithreaded app is a shedload of worker threads all modifying the same database - sometimes the task to split up is fairly trivial.
In my case I was applying filters to an image to convert it to Sinclair ZX Spectrum format. To take advantage of dual CPU's I simply split the image in to two parts when applying those filters and have a simple lock to make sure that the job is truly done before moving on to the next filter.
You are wrong - see the accounts - they spent over £2.5bn last year so they certainly have revenues of >$3bn. The licence fee is a big chunk of that but there is also syndication rights for stuff like TellyTubbies and natural history programs. Not to mention all those DVD/Video sales.
In fact BMW do sell their engines to other motor companies. The Morgan Aero 8 is one left-field example but they also supply the diesel V8 to LandRover and strangely a petrol V8 to VW owned Bentley for the Arnage.
My personal pc (cheaply bought, about $500 less than any price apple could offer, and running win2kPro) has been up for exactly 31 days today. I have had ONE problem:
My desktop icon's were replaced with a 'Default' icon. I killed and then re-launched explorer. Problem fixed in 2 seconds.
Correction, the problem has not been fixed. It has been swept under the carpet. Why were the icons replaced? What did you do to stop them being replaced in the future? I use NT 4 at work and this is one of the things I hate about Windows, and after reading your post, am disappointed that W2K still appears to gently degrade with extended uptime.
>>Yeah, but will you still do that when you can download them to.vob files and burn them to DVD-ROMs?
>But by the time this is possible, DVDs will be passe
Er, the technology is already here! I can download a DivX overnight then convert the DivX to MPEG2 + AC3 and mux those into VOBs to burn on my DVD-R. Played through a TV the results are usually very acceptable.
Now, even on a relatively quick computer this all takes time. One night to download, a good few hours to scale/border/change frame rate/convert to MPEG2. Since DVDs are pretty reasonably priced I'll just go and buy the damned disc, get all the extras and save myself some effort. Where it is worth the effort is where the source isn't available on DVD - old TV programs (Dr Who!), stuff not released in Europe etc.
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I see you are a light data user ;) I got my first Mac in 1996 with a 1.2GB drive. After a couple of years I had filled it up and got a 10GB replacement - wow the storage space! Bought a new G4 last autumn (that's fall for you USians) with an 80GB drive and the damn thing is almost full up already - luckily there are three empty drive bays...
This got in the news in the UK at the end of last year - a woman drunk antifreeze by mistake and got prescribed whisky when she went to the hospital. Two glasses immediately followed by one an hour for 24 hours. I'd imagine she was pretty rat-arsed after that (free) session!
OK - here's my Mac RtCW experience:
My System:
PowerMac G4, 2x1.0GHz
512 MB RAM
GeForce 4 Ti4600
I run RtCW at 1280x1024 (Forced on me by the LCD monitor) with all the eye-candy and it seems to keep a steady 70-80fps. I'm looking at the fps counter - is timedemo more or less acurate? It'll drop a bit outdoors but dark narrow corridors go well over 100fps. The worst case scenario seems to be outdoors with lots of dynamic lighting. Standing on the roofs looking out over all the flames in 'The Bombed Factory' is particularly bad. I managed rates as low as 25fps here but only if I stood in a certain spot looking in a certain direction - I was also running iTunes in the background. In a nomal game I've never seen chopiness.
Interesting to read this form the original paper:
We have also been stimulated by a knowlege of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr R. E. Franklin [snip]
Looks like a credit...
(Yeah, I know. grep 'goto' in the Linux kernal source tree sometime....)
// Never reach this line :(
1. the chip comes out
2. some people use it
3. the price drops some
4. some more people use it
5. goto 3
I see the problem with 'goto':
6. ???
7. Profit!!!
I've got an MS intellimouse and I set up the wheel-button to do a Cmd-Shift click for Safari - pressing the wheel opens a new background tab.
The jet engine noise comes from a fan that only turns on when the box gets to hot. This is incredibly noisy but I only get it for the first couple of seconds after a reboot. This fix is for the PSU fans which while loud are not in the same league. Some people say the PSU noise is unacceptable - I find it is alright and suspect there has been some hysteria doing the rounds here. I guess if you're doing audio work it would be a pain though. Even so I've ordered my new PSU as quietness is a good thing. So we'll see how that goes - shipping March 10th...
l0phtCrack really can do this - by exploting weaknesses in Windows password hashing it is possible to know that you have some of the characters right without getting the whole password. This paper goes into the gory detail...
I went back to 1970 once I rebooted following the install. Once it was online it found a timeserver and sorted itself out so no big problem there. It's not been rebooted since and won't be until the next big update so I've no idea if it always jumps back to 1970 or not.
If you move apps where Apple's installer doesn't expect them to be (and don't whine how it is your computer and not Apple's), you'll have boinked links, and dock icon issues.
I understand why the system files should be left well alone but it *really* annoys me that the updaters get picky on the location of the 'Applications' folder. I have the core OS on its own partition and I put the apps on a larger partition. I even give the OS a clue by making '/Applications' a symlink to the actual location of the apps. Why then do updaters insist on replacing the symlink with a new '/Applications' folder? Why can't it just follow the damn link? It's not so bad when an entire app is updated - just drag it into *my* apps folder and the job is done. The real PITA is when an app bundle is partially updated and you have a folder full of crud to merge with the original.
Yeah, but the ping times suck.
You need to travel in time, not space, for Planet of the Apes.
I'm not sure what's in that initial 20k, but it's probably some info describing how the file was made.
Most likely it's a bunch of personal information that Word has scavanged off your hard drive and broadcasting to anyone with an efficient text editor.
Apple can hardly be responsible for third party kernel extensions causing havoc. I think Zelet can hold off packing his iBook for now!
No it isn't. How many multi-threaded programs have you written? It is nowhere near as simple as just creating a thread and setting it loose in a program that wasn't designed to be multi-threaded.
I don't know about the grandparent but I have written a Cocoa app with threading and it was pretty simple. Not every multithreaded app is a shedload of worker threads all modifying the same database - sometimes the task to split up is fairly trivial.
In my case I was applying filters to an image to convert it to Sinclair ZX Spectrum format. To take advantage of dual CPU's I simply split the image in to two parts when applying those filters and have a simple lock to make sure that the job is truly done before moving on to the next filter.
It was a full reboot for me when I updated this morning - and yes I am using 10.2.3:
bash-2.05a$ uptime
11:07AM up 3:07, 2 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
bash-2.05a$
You are wrong - see the accounts - they spent over £2.5bn last year so they certainly have revenues of >$3bn. The licence fee is a big chunk of that but there is also syndication rights for stuff like TellyTubbies and natural history programs. Not to mention all those DVD/Video sales.
And the other end of the transmission was Bass Point on the Lizard penisnsula in Cornwall.
And you forget the most important problem of Microsoft Internet Explorer - it does not work at all on any Unix system
Here's a link to a UNIX version of MSIE.
If that Ti-Book is still sitting idle drop me a mail - I'm sure I'll find a use for it!
In fact BMW do sell their engines to other motor companies. The Morgan Aero 8 is one left-field example but they also supply the diesel V8 to LandRover and strangely a petrol V8 to VW owned Bentley for the Arnage.
My personal pc (cheaply bought, about $500 less than any price apple could offer, and running win2kPro) has been up for exactly 31 days today. I have had ONE problem: My desktop icon's were replaced with a 'Default' icon. I killed and then re-launched explorer. Problem fixed in 2 seconds.
Correction, the problem has not been fixed. It has been swept under the carpet. Why were the icons replaced? What did you do to stop them being replaced in the future? I use NT 4 at work and this is one of the things I hate about Windows, and after reading your post, am disappointed that W2K still appears to gently degrade with extended uptime.
>>Yeah, but will you still do that when you can download them to .vob files and burn them to DVD-ROMs?
>But by the time this is possible, DVDs will be passe
Er, the technology is already here! I can download a DivX overnight then convert the DivX to MPEG2 + AC3 and mux those into VOBs to burn on my DVD-R. Played through a TV the results are usually very acceptable.
Now, even on a relatively quick computer this all takes time. One night to download, a good few hours to scale/border/change frame rate/convert to MPEG2. Since DVDs are pretty reasonably priced I'll just go and buy the damned disc, get all the extras and save myself some effort. Where it is worth the effort is where the source isn't available on DVD - old TV programs (Dr Who!), stuff not released in Europe etc.
If the claimer has a eg. screenshot of something shared it's the users responsebility to prove that it's NOT illigal.
In SOVIET RUSSIA maybe - but not in Denmark or anywhere else in western Europe for that matter.
Whereas these days you can go to a website plonk down $0 and walk out with a suitcase full of compilers.